Jean-Claude Van Damme pokes fun at his meathead persona in a new Amazon series. And Mark Wahlberg tries to save the Gulf Coast in “Deepwater Horizon.”

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JEAN-CLAUDE VAN JOHNSONon Amazon. “I made 40-plus movies where you see me with a gun and that one neutral face,” Jean-Claude Van Damme self-deprecatingly told The Times last month. The Muscles from Brussels will have quite a lot more to do in this new show, in which he plays not only a version of himself — a broken-down action star leading cheap movies — but also a time-traveling doppelgänger and a simpering factory worker. The show reveals Mr. Van Damme’s softer side, but, of course, leaves plenty of screen time for his flying fists.

WORMWOODon Netflix. “Stranger Things” has brought the MK-Ultra project — in which C.I.A. subjects used LSD to attempt mind control during the Cold War — back into the cultural consciousness, with terrifying depictions of their experiments. Errol Morris (“The Thin Blue Line”) goes one step further in this new docu-series, in which he investigates the suspicious fate of Frank Olson, an Army scientist who was given LSD days before he plunged to his death in 1953. The show intersperses archival footage with dramatic re-enactments starring Peter Sarsgaard as Olson.

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A scene from “Trollhunters.”CreditNetflix

TROLLHUNTERSon Netflix. With its grotesque monsters and ability to conjure overwhelming dread, Guillermo del Toro’s work typically isn’t meant for children. But this series, which he made with DreamWorks, is targeted toward a younger audience, and was partly inspired by his childhood explorations of the vast sewer system below his hometown, Guadalajara, Mexico. (“I wanted to do a series that I could imagine watching with a glass of milk on the couch with my dad and my brothers,” he said in a Times interview.) Season 2 arrives on Friday; it follows Jim (voiced by Anton Yelchin, who died in 2016) as he explores a teeming land of trolls below his quiet street and defends the human and troll worlds against evil forces.

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Mark Wahlberg in “Deepwater Horizon.”CreditDavid Lee/Lionsgate

DEEPWATER HORIZON (2015) 8 p.m. on HBO. Mark Wahlberg stars in this re-enactment of one horrible day in 2010, in which a BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 and damaging a vast marine ecosystem. The spill was later deemed the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Peter Berg directed this drama with suspense and precision. “The anger and grief you feel leaving the theater constitute a kind of catharsis, a modest symbolic compensation for the failure of justice in the real world,” A. O. Scott wrote in his Times review.

HAWAII FIVE-09 and 10 p.m. on CBS. The tropical procedural wraps up its fall season with two episodes on Friday. When Danny (Scott Caan) is shot while quarantined in the hospital, he falls unconscious and imagines a future for everyone on the squad. At 8, MACGYVER also wraps up its fall season, as the L.A.P.D. arrests Mac (Lucas Till) for terrorism.